TH E TASMANIAN NATURALIST. 
TREASURER'S REPORT to STATEMENT 
I have the honour to furnish my Report for the year 1908-9 ;—The 
transactions as compared with those of the previous year have been 
greater by T > 1 5 4 s * 6d. During that year, owing to the falling off of 
the revenue, appeals had to be made to members for donations to 
the Printing Fund, but even then the responses which amounted to 
^4 15s. 6d., were insufficient to meet all liabilities. This year I am 
pleased to say we have not only overtaken the liabilities of the Club, 
including the return of a loan of ^5 which was very generously advanced 
by our Chairman—Mr. Rodway -during the early part of the year 1907-S, 
to meet pressing demands, but we have a small credit balance of 
j£i 17s. 1 id. Although we may congratulate ourselves upon this state 
of affairs we must nevertheless bear in mind that our expenses are 
increasing with the years, and, therefore, members are asked to assist 
the Treasurer in every way, especially by forwarding their subscriptions 
in early because on which much of the Club’s prosperity depends. It 
is trusted that members will not think that we are now independent of 
receiving donations, far from it, in fact it appears that to enable the Club 
to incur similar expenditure and bring out a Journal, donations will be 
absolutely necessary. Every effort has been made to collect all subscrip¬ 
tions, but there are still some arrears which amount for the year just 
closed to i 6s. 3d, and for back years to ^3 7s. 6d., making a 
total of j£6 3s. i)d. outstanding. It will be noticed in the Statement 
on opposite page that the cost of printing the Club’s Journal is not 
included for the reason that it was not ready at the time of balancing. 
Several items of expenditure have of necessity been increased as 
compared with those of the previous year. For instance, item ‘Stationery 
and Stamps’ was increased by 12s. 4c!.; item ‘Advertising’ by 
£4 6s. 3d ; item ‘ Rent of Room’ by £2 12s 6d. ; but as against 
these increases of expenditure 1 am pleased to state that current receipts 
have increased fiom ^19 is. in 1907-8 to ^26 5s. 
R. A. BLACK, 
Hon. 'Treasurer, 
23/9/09- 
